- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - Checkatrade™ Official Site # checkatrade.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/checkatrade.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/checkatrade.com/report.md) ## Website checkatrade.com Checkatrade™ Official Site – Find a Tradesperson Need a tradesperson? Visit the Checkatrade™ official site to find tradespeople and request a quote today. Checkatrade, a job done right. Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 22:13 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## Truth score Truth score 88 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied 88 / 100 High truth signals Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked ## Business details Years in business: 25 years Founded: 1998 Founded by: Kevin Byrne Owned by: Homeserve Memberships: Gas Safe [Its homepage](https://www.checkatrade.com/) Claimed by the business, not checked. Sells: Physical services Kind of seller: Comparison, review or referral site Licensed trade: No licence normally needed Domain age: 22 years Address: [Level 2, City Point, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9SS, England](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Level%202%2C%20City%20Point%2C%20Ropemaker%20Street%2C%20London%2C%20EC2Y%209SS%2C%20England) Email address: Not found Phone number: [+44 330 128 1725](tel:+44%20330%20128%201725) Contact page: [www.checkatrade.com/support](https://www.checkatrade.com/support) Linked from the site's own pages. We could not open it. Website: [checkatrade.com](https://checkatrade.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: Not found ## Do the sources agree? Address: Level 2, City Point, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9SS, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found Company name: VETTED LIMITED Its website agrees Companies House agrees ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Site Reviews Rating [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/checkatrade.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 8 reviews · 2.3 out of 5 stars [Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/checkatrade.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 669 reviews · 1.9 out of 5 stars [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/checkatrade/id6474018934) · Read 12 November 2026 · 20,733 ratings · 4.7 out of 5 stars Total 21,410 4.6 out of 5 stars Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.checkatrade.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here. Customer satisfaction Mostly dissatisfied · Medium confidence · From 677 reviews on 2 independent review sites App experience Mostly satisfied · High confidence · From 20,733 ratings on the App Store ## Summary Is checkatrade.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 88 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, medium confidence. checkatrade.com is run by Vetted Limited, part of Homeserve, an active UK company registered at Companies House 25 years ago, and was founded in 1998. Its website address was registered 22 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 669 reviews on Reviews.io average only 1.9 stars out of 5. Its 8 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.3 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles or an email address. ### Positives - An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago. - Its website address was registered 22 years ago. - It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.checkatrade.com). - The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House. - No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. ### Be cautious - A substantial number of independent reviews (669 on [Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/checkatrade.com) ), but it falls short with only 1.9 stars out of 5. - A low number of independent reviews (8 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/checkatrade.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.3 stars out of 5. ### Not found - Social presence information was not found from our checks. - Email address information was not found from our checks. Our technical team has been informed. Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam. ### What they offer Need a tradesperson? Visit the Checkatrade™ official site to find tradespeople and request a quote today. Checkatrade, a job done right. — Checkatrade™ Official Site, in their own words What they sell Promises: [*Eligibility & T&C's](https://www.checkatrade.com/guarantee-terms) Sources [Its homepage](https://www.checkatrade.com/) ### How to check if checkatrade.com is legit To check if checkatrade.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about checkatrade.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago - Its registered office at Companies House is Level 2, City Point, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9SS, England - Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025 - It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months - Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data Country Where the company is based: UK Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode Which countries the company serves: UK Why we believe that: £ prices on its homepage, its structured data names the area it serves Registration Companies House registration: Registered as VETTED LIMITED Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number Z6851067 VAT number: Not found Companies House register Company found in official company register: Yes Registered company name: VETTED LIMITED Company status: active Company age: 25 years Registered address: Level 2, City Point, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9SS, England Accounts overdue: No Confirmation statement overdue: No Insolvency history: No Registered office in dispute: No Filing history consistent: Yes ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes Registered to do: 82990 Other business support service activities n.e.c. Company type: Private limited company Size and borrowing Accounts filed: Full accounts The most detailed kind a company files. Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House. From Wikipedia Type (Wikipedia): private company limited by shares Industry: marketing Parent company: Homeserve Founded: 1998 Area served: United Kingdom Employees: 400 Revenue: 29691444 pound sterling Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04285394) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkatrade) [ICO register entry](https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/Z6851067) Domain registration Its website address was registered 22 years ago - Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else Domain age: 22 years Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=checkatrade.com) Website details We read 2 of its pages: about and terms HTTPS enabled: Yes Contact phone number found: [+44 330 128 1725](tel:+443301281725) Contact page linked: Yes Sources agreeing on postcode: 2 Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc. What its pages say In their own words: “Since 1998, we've connected homeowners with trades they can trust. Now we're taking that into the digital age, cutting out the chasing, the waiting and the guesswork, so finding the right tradesperson is quicker and easier than ever. In 1998, a tornado tore through Selsey, a small seaside town on the south coast.” Sources [Homepage](https://checkatrade.com/) [About page](https://checkatrade.com/about) [Terms page](https://checkatrade.com/guarantee-terms) Search engines and AI Lets in search engines and AI answers; blocks 1 of 7 AI training tools Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question. Search engines All allowed Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot AI training 1 of 7 blocked OpenAI: Allowed by name GPTBot Anthropic: Allowed by name ClaudeBot Google AI: Allowed by name Google-Extended Apple AI: Allowed by name Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Allowed by name CCBot Meta: Allowed by name meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txt Bytespider AI answers All allowed ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User Perplexity: Allowed by name PerplexityBot User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: meta-externalagent User-agent: GoogleOther User-agent: ShapBot User-agent: ExaSearchBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /GiveFeedback/* Disallow: /give-feedback/ Disallow: /Reputation/Checkout.aspx Disallow: /Reputation/Album.aspx Disallow: /Account/ Disallow: /account/ Disallow: */bookable-services/ Disallow: */raq-message* Disallow: /trades/*/reviews Disallow: /trades/*/albums Disallow: /trades/*/featured-projects Disallow: /trades/*/message Disallow: /post-a-job Disallow: /post-job Disallow: /message Disallow: /checkout Disallow: /pay Disallow: /booking-flow Disallow: /jobs Disallow: /consumer Disallow: /profile User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / Sources [robots.txt](https://checkatrade.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints 21,410 reviews across 3 platforms, rated 1.9 to 4.7 out of 5 Platform · Rating · Reviews [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.checkatrade.com) · Unknown · Unknown [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/checkatrade.com) · 2.3 out of 5 stars · 8 [Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/checkatrade.com) · 1.9 out of 5 stars · 669 Total · 4.6 out of 5 stars · 21,410 App Store Its app, Checkatrade, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.7 out of 5 from 20,733 ratings, counted in the reviews total. App: Checkatrade App Store page: [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/checkatrade/id6474018934](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/checkatrade/id6474018934) App Store rating: 4.7 out of 5 App Store ratings: 20,733 Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months - Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier - It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar) Monthly visitor data Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24 Traffic pattern: sustained Rank jump in the last 12 months: none Rank drop in the last 12 months: none Cloudflare Radar Popularity across the internet: top 50,000 sites Where its visitors are Share of people looking up checkatrade.com, by country, over the last 2 days. - Over 50% - 5 to 50% - 1 to 5% - 0.2 to 1% - Under 0.2% - None seen - 1 United Kingdom 69.8% - 2 Singapore 7.8% - 3 United States 7.2% - 4 Germany 4.1% - 5 Brazil 1.7% - 6 Netherlands 1.4% - 7 France 0.9% - 8 Ireland 0.8% - 9 India 0.8% - 10 Bangladesh 0.6% Top 10 of 34 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/checkatrade.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago Website archive history: 22 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20040402/checkatrade.com) Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time. ### What data this site collects about you Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete. Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at. Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here. Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow. Source [Its homepage](https://checkatrade.com/) ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one. Malware or phishing threat status: None found Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history No known data breach involving the company Known data breaches found: 0 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam Email MX records: Yes SPF record: Yes DKIM key: Yes DMARC record: Yes DMARC policy: quarantine Certificate Security certificate browsers warn about: No Certificate issuer: Google Trust Services Certificate type: DV Certificate expires: 29 Jan 2027 Hosting Nameservers: adrian.ns.cloudflare.com kai.ns.cloudflare.com Address: 104.18.30.126 104.18.31.126 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=checkatrade.com&rr_type=TXT) ### Proof of ownership What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it. DNS record Not added yet +3 possible What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one. When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there. Points: 0 of 3 added Source checkatrade.com's DNS records Run checkatrade.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/checkatrade.com) Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain. When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on. Points: 0 of 1 added Source Truth Signal's own records Run checkatrade.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/checkatrade.com) Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website. When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it. Points: 0 of 1 added Source checkatrade.com/robots.txt Run checkatrade.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/checkatrade.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for checkatrade.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=checkatrade.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. A person checks it against its source and replies by email; the report stays as it is until then. ### Change over time - Truth score - Social Followers - Data points [Register / log in to view](https://truthsignal.com/login?to=/business/checkatrade.com%23change) ## Past reports The report as it read each month, newest first: - 2026-11: truth score 88, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/checkatrade.com/report/2026-11.md ## How the customers' Total rating is worked out Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures: (7 × 3.5 + 2.3 × 8 (SmartCustomer) + 1.9 × 669 (Reviews.io) + 4.7 × 20,733 (App Store)) ÷ (7 + 21,410) = 4.6, to one decimal place ## Cite Truth Signal, Checkatrade™ Official Site: truth score 88 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/checkatrade.com. 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